The 2011 TIME 100 Poll

Cast your votes for the leaders, artists, innovators, icons and heroes that you think are the most influential people in the world. Though official voting for inclusion on the TIME 100 list has now closed (with Rain as the 2011 readers' choice), users can continue to vote for their favorites until the final list, selected by our editors, is revealed on Thursday, April 21st

TIME 100 Candidates

Li Chengpeng

By TIME StaffMonday, Apr. 04, 2011
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Jiang Xiaoming / Color China Photo / AP

Age: 42
Occupation: Writer
Previous TIME 100 appearances: 0

China's hottest novelist cum blogger became famous as a soccer commentator who exposed the dirty side of Chinese football. Then he moved on to uncovering corruption surrounding the Sichuan earthquake. Now he has just published a hugely successful novel about the forced evictions and demolitions that plague a booming China. Whatever the topic of Li's books, they are sure to reflect the Chinese zeitgeist.

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